How-To

TIPS AND TRICKS

• Deleting Apps - Click and hold on app until they all dance around. You will then have the option to click the x to delete or move the icon to other pages and locations. With 4.2 you can temporarily disallow Deleting Apps if students accidentally delete - just go into Settings, General and turn off deleting apps.

• Fun Accessories for your iPad - Wendy found an awesome site to help with all your iPad needs. Check it out at www.handhelditems.com

• Courtesy of Don Johnston, here is a link to a video which shows how to convert a book in NIMAS or Bookshare to EPUB format, accessible on iPad:http://www.donjohnston.com/support/daisytoepubtutorials/index.html

• The following links were provided to us by Dave Marra at his presentation on November 22.
  • www.apple.com/accessibility
  • www.apple.com/education/apps

• Other highlights from the presentation included a demonstration of apps:
  • iWork includes Keynote for presentations, Pages for word processing and Numbers for spreadsheets.
  • StarWalk - personal planetarium includes a digital compass
  • Eclicker allows teachers to do class surveys of up to 64 devices. Teacher app is $10. Student apps are free.
  • The Elements - provides information and modeled representations of the elements.
  • iTunes University allows teachers and professors o share lessons and class materials for free
  • iBooks allows for viewing of PDFs. You can highlight pages in a book or take notes on a page in the book and all your markings can be synched across all your devices. Features such as auto dictionary and auto highlight were discussed.
  • Quick Graph is a graphing calculator
  • Proloquo2go
  • World Atlas Nat Geo (the reviews on this app are pretty bad!)
  • Mathboard
  • Shakespeare Pro includes all of Shakespeare's works. There is a lite version as well, which is FREE.

Creating Narrated Books

• Using Keynote on your MAC, create pages by inserting pictures of your book pages.
• Narrate the pages into individual sound files using garage band. Save your sound files. When you close out of garage band you will be asked if you want to save your project with iLife preview. Say YES.
• in Keynote, use the media option to insert sound onto your page. Select the sound file that corresponds with each page.
• Email the finished keynote file to yourself and open it on your iPad. You will be asked if you want to open with Keynote. Say yes and wala! you have a narrated book on your iPad.

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